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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1998
Michael R. Diehl, Loveland, CO (US);
Maynard Hammond, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transferring data in a computer system between a first memory region and second memory region in a single Direct Memory Access (DMA) operation. The first memory region, the second memory region, or both the first and second memory regions can include sub-regions of sequentially-addressable memory locations that are separated, within their respective regions, by a stride. The method and apparatus are particularly well adapted for use in computer graphics systems that include one or more regions of memory, such as frame buffers, that are organized in a rectangular manner as a plurality of contiguous but not sequentially-addressable memory locations within the memory of the graphics system.